The treatment of malignant cerebral tumours

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 772-777

  Short, S C ^a   Brada, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034326881     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hosp.2000.61.11.1462     Document Type: Article

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